1483 England's King Richard III crowned
1560 England/Scotland signs Treaty of Edinburgh
1189 Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1687 Newton publishes "Principia
1699 Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1776 Dec of Ind announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette
1785 Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1853 National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole
1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1939 German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1949 Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158øF for 2 minutes holy crap that's hot
1957 Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney
1958 Alaska becomes 49th state
1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
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I am a Sado-Machiavellian. As long as I cum in the end... It doesn't matter what I did to get there. :yowsa:
I just made that term up.... pretty good eh?
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